Smoker&#39;s appliance



Feb. 26, 1924.

R. G. FLEMNG SMOKERS APPLIANCE Filed July 11, 1923 gvwemioz BOBEZT G. FLEMING, OF NEWARK, NEWJEBSE'Y, ASSIGNOB TO THE SHOKADOB MANU FACTUBING COMPANY, INC., BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

smoxnns APPLIANCE Application. and m 11, 1923. Serial No. 650,796.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ronnn'r G. FLEMING,

citizen of the United States, residin at Newark, in the county of Essex and tate B of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Smokers Appliances, of which the following is a specification. I This invention relates to certain new and 1G useful improvements in smokers appliances and re ates more particularly to a device for holding either a cigar, cigarette or pipe in a stationary osition on an ash receiver or stand or ot er su port.

In movement 0 ash trays or receivers, or so termed smoking stands, either premeditated or accidental, it frequently occurs that the cigars, or cigarettes, placed in the commonly curved rests provided therefor, be- 20 come dislodged and are thrown into the tray or upon the table or floor.

It is therefore the primary object of the present invention to provide improved means to efiectively grip and hold the ci r 2 or other article in position so as to resist islodgment upon any movement of the receiver or stand.

A further object of the invention is to provide means of the type set forth, which so not onl permits the cigar or other article to be easi y and quickly engaged with and disengaged from the holder, but which will not damage or distort the cigar or cigarette by exerting undue pressure thereon.

8a A still further object of the invention is to provide holding means which 'is adaptable to a wide range of cigars or cigarettes of varying diameters or shapes.

Another object of the invention is to proac vide a holding device ofneat appearance so as to not detract from the ornamental value of the receiver or stand, and toprovide a novel manner of mounting of the holding means.

Still further and other objects will he later herein set forth and of themselves manifasted in the course of the following description.

In the drawi p so Figure 1, is a side elevation, partly broken away and in section, showing the invention applied to a smoking stand;

Figure 2, is a fragmentary enlarged detail view, partly in section of the invention;

U0!) vfiled February 20, 1922, Serial No.

537,899, and is illustrated in connection therewith, but it is to be expressly understood that use of the invention is not limited to stands of this or other floor supported stands, but to the contrary comprehends use in connection with any smokers apparatus,

such as trays or receivers which are supported on tables or other surfaces.

The base 1 is hollow and exteriorly formed so as to have rocking movement on the floorand is weighted so as to be selfrighting. The standard 2 is hollow and supports an ash tray or receiver 3 so that ashes or the like placed in the tray will be conveyed by the hollow standard into the base 1.

The top portion 4 of the ash tray is preferably formed with an I-shaped slit and the resultant portions or wings on opposite sides of the central part of the slit are then bent upwardly and finally inwardly to form a pair of spaced, confronting and parallel guides 5. A pair of approximately L-shaped aws '6 are employed, the bases of which are provided on their opposite outer side faces with longitudinal grooves 7, formed to slidably receive the guides 5 therein.

The jaws are slid into engagement with the guides from the outer ends of the latter and each is provided with a depending eye 8 to which eyes the ends of a coil spring 9 are secured. The eyes are connected to the .bases of the jaws from beneath the top portion 4 of the tray, and by virtue of their engagement with the end walls resultant from the slit, will accordingly restrict the extent of outward movement of the jaws and will also prevent disengagement of the jaws from A the tray or receiver.

The jaws along their efiective or vertical faces may be formed with curved parts 10 to engage the cigar or the like, While the upper free parts 11 of the faces curve outwardly in a fiared or divergent formation, the purpose of which is to form a mouth enabling the cigar or cigarette to be placed between the jaws and then moved dwnwardly, acting somewhat as a wedge in forcing the jaws apart, against the tension of the spring The cigar, cigarette, or other object rests or engages upon the horizontal upper parts of the two guides and since the latter are spaced (Figure 4) air is permitted to have access to the cigar so that the objectionable encrustation of nicotine, which collects on the usual curved or other solid formsof rests is eliminated. In addition, and as depicted in Figure 3, the cigar is held by the guides above the top 4 of the tray and since the'guides are relatively narrow and spaced, at firm and substantial support is afforded while still preventing contact of the cigar with but very little metal and per mitting free circulation of air beneath the cigar or the like, and the top of the tray.

The guides 5 are thus seen to function in s a dual capacity.

l-lereto'fore the most successful types of cigar holders which hold the cigar by pressure, have been made of spring material somewhat lyre shape, and depending for their action upon the movement or" the two arms of the holder on the. line of arcs around the point of attachment. In articles of this kind the distance at which the cigar or cigarette must he held from the point of attachment or the holder to the tray iJQCOHlQS greater as the sensitiveness of the device is increased. The pressure which is allowable ton holding'either a cigar or cigarette without damage to the wrapper is very small and for this reason all devices of this kind must he of such light and thin material and the radius of their action so great they are easily hent hrolten or damagedand a ltogether impractical where the ash receiver is suhjected to rough usage.

In Figure a rigid jaw 38 is provided h the material resultant from the rrnation a slot 31 in the top 32 of the ash tray. A slidahie jaw has base equipped h guides 35 in t operate the slot 211% carried A coil spring 37 is secured to one of the screws and to a headed pin 38 which latter is secured to the tray to This fornrof the invention affords a rigi jaw and a slidable jaw, hut with somewhat less sensitive action in introducin the cigar between the jaws.

What is claimed is 1. A holder for ci ars or the like, including a support forrne with a slot and having the parts of the support on opposite sides of the slot extended upwardly and then inwardly to form combined guides and rests for the cigar disposed above the support, a pair of jaws of approximately L-shape having their bases slidahle on the support and grooved on their opposite sides to receive the guides, a coil spring underlying the support and means extending through said slot to connect the spring ends to the respective jaw bases.

2. A holder for cigars or the like, including a support formed with a slot and having the parts of the support on opposite sides or the slot extending upwardly and then inwardly to form spaced and raised combined guides and rests for the cigar, a pair of jars engaged with the guides, and means to tension the jaws.

3. In combination with a support, a pair of spaced guides carried by the support and projectin thereahove and formed to conjointiy a lord a ventilated cigar rest, engaging the guides and one or" which is slidalole longitudinally thereof, and ineans to tension said jaw.

A holder for cigars and the lilre including a support, and a pair of the support formed to engage opposite sides oi a cigar, one. of the members heing siidahie along the support, and means to tension said member, the meinhers'heing formed at their free to allow cigar to engaged therehetween and my pressure to cause sliding of said meiniosr to cigar to engage the support thereon or the tensioning means.

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